Your kids may have seen “that guy” before, but probably haven’t experienced the Marx Brothers humor in action, which is still remarkably funny.

Challenging Parts of Speech

These sentences are also a great connection to wordplay, puns, and parts of speech. I’ve written before about “edge cases,” those really special examples that push students to truly understand material. Your kids can try to identify parts of speech in sentences with multiple uses of a single word, with the ultimate example being:

Will Will will the will to Will?

Create Your Own

Of course, there will be a group of students who want to create their own cleverly ambiguous sentences. Have them look closely at the patterns in the examples you give. The key is to build the sentences around homographs and homonyms, words that look the same but have different meanings. And I do have a list of 125 multiple meaning words available for purchase as part of the Advanced Vocabulary Guide.